7 September 2007: Morning

  • New congressional report on Iraq works for both parties, though, for Petraeus, we wait until Monday to see.
  • Not so for Bill Clinton, never far from a podium.
  • Federal judge junks Patriot Act warrantless tactic, second time he's called provisions unconstitutional.
  • Op: Germany will now have a harder time telling itself the war on terror is fiction.
  • German youth football beset by severe anti-semitism; despite plenty of anti-Nazi money and programs, there are many places in Germany non-Aryans should avoid.
  • Black Enterprise cuts Eddie Griffin's mic for using the n-word too many times.
  • Air Force dumbfounded over how it accidentally lost its luggage--six nuclear warheads--on a flight to Louisiana.
  • The trip was long and uneventful, other than two checkpoints being run by masked men. Blog account of a family leaving Iraq.
  • Study finds bird flu left one human for another in Indonesia last year.
  • Australian comedy show drives fake Canadian motorcade, with fake bin Laden, up to Bush's hotel.
  • Op: Offsetting carbon--i.e., paying poor villagers to pump water by foot--is a shabby salve for your eco-guilt.
  • Evidence suggests France is using China as an external U.S.B hard drive to offset itself.
  • The white paper you've been waiting for: how magicians protect their intellectual property without law.
  • A complete guide to prosopagnosia, or, face blindness.
  • When women stop reading fiction, the novel will die, though the research on exactly why is still oustanding.
  • Fond obit for Michael Jackson, emeritus master of beer writing, and possessor of Parkinson's.
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